All Your Powers Combined: The Vandenreich is so far displaying quite an eclectic range of powers from different sources, and there are implications that they can use even more.

A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Vandenreich's entire set-up seems to be inspired by Nazi Germany themes, not only regarding uniforms but also certain behavioral attitudes, including one that borders on ethnic cleansing (one that fans nicknamed a Hollowcaust).

Badass Crew: Six members (led by Luders) waltzed right into Soul Society, declared war on Yamamoto, and waltzed right out of Soul Society without tripping any alarms until after the fact. They left behind 116 dead shinigami, one of whom was Yamamoto's Bankai-wielding lieutenant, who might have been killed by only one member of said crew according to shinigami speculation.

When they finally do invade the Soul Society; 1000 deaths in 7 minutes, possibly including another lieutenant -- Kira.

The Empire: They're building themselves up as one, if their conquest of Hueco Mundo is any indication.

Evil Is Hammy: Some of them seem to be prone to, well, being REALLY loud and expressive when they want to. Ivan was a pretty decent example (with his hamminess getting him kicked off Ichigo's bed), but Kirge Opie puts on the pork in a simply incredible manner (and gets hammier and hammier as he absorbs Allon), and their Emperor is the rare kind of ham that doubles as The Stoic.

Faceless Goons: If anyone removes their mask, they usually have a specific role to play, regardless of whether or not it's short-lived.

Gratuitous German: Their known divisions are the Sternritter ("star knights") and the Jagdarmee ("hunting army"), most of their names sound vaguely German-ish, their attacks are all in mangled German and, lastly, they call themselves the Vandenreich...

Hero-Killer: You thought Aizen was bad? Within the first few chapters of the arc, 116 individuals get killed during a three-minute fight. One of them was Chojiro Sasakibe, a guy who had Bankai.

Taken Up to Eleven once they invade the Seireitei. A thousand casualties in 7 minutes - that's 143 wounded or killed every 60 seconds. Said casualties include Izuru Kira, Tatetsuna Gori, Asuka Katakura and Riku Togakushi.

Hidden Agenda Villain: While we know what their leader wants (i.e. to attack the Soul Society), that's about as far as we know regarding their goals, much less their motives.

Knight of Cerebus: From the outset of this arc, the Vandenreich has made it clear it won't hesitate to kill off established characters, without bothering to get into lengthy fights. No tactic is off-limits, to the extent that they force their enemies to murder the ones they're supposed to protect.

Malevolent Masked Men: Their main introduction to the shinigami was by presenting a group of seven fully masked warriors to Yamamoto himself.

Power Parasite: Their opening strike in the arc is to target shinigami bankai. The shinigami don't fully understand why.

The implication from Ivan's fight with Ichigo is that when a Shinigami uses a Bankai against them, they either absorb the power or the abilities. Since Ichigo's was technically a Fullbring, NOT a Bankai, information Ivan did not have access to, it failed, to Ivan's shock.

Kirge Opie makes it clear that its a form of Power Copying; anything made of spiritual particles can be absorbed and the Vandenreich member can take on the form and abilities of the victim [1].

Villain Teleportation: The Vandenreich seems to have a unique teleportation technique that not even the Shakonmaku can disrupt. Ivan claimed it was proof of the them being "chosen".

Wham! Episode: These guys are very much prone to it. For starters, they killed Chojiro Sasakibe, prompted Mayuri to butcher thousands of Rukongai civilians, and decided to invade the Soul Society much quicker than anticipated. Furthermore, they (are implied to) possess an angelic One-Winged Angel, they enslave reishi, and their leader will lead the assault on the Seireitei. And we don't even know most of their names yet.

The leader of the Vandenreich, first seen when his subordinates deliver their report from the Soul Society. So far, he's shown to be ruthless, intolerant and disturbingly brutal. This is a man you do not want to annoy.

Combat Pragmatist: He certainly doesn't adhere to the Laws and Customs of War; his first act of war? To screw the grace period for Soul Society to surrender and invade five days before he said he would.

Dangerously Genre Savvy: When he learned that Ichigo went to Hueco Mundo, his first reaction is to order an assault on the Soul Society, (correctly) rationalizing that Kirge Opie will keep Ichigo distracted enough for an invasion to occur.

Personally leading the assault on the Seireitei, instead of leaving it to the Stern Ritter. Cue a Mass "Oh Crap" from the Shinigami.

Disproportionate Retribution: He wants to hear about the present, not the future. When Luders gave his two cents on what the Soul Society would do after their attack, his boss butchers him.

For the Evulz: He admits that he has no reason to praise or critique how one of his subordinates handled their mission, but he kills him regardless.

Hair-Trigger Temper: That's triggered just by mentioning fights, He whips off one of his subordinates arms just for teasing a fight with Ivan. A bit more subtle since he has Dissonant Serenity to back it up.

Hypocrite: He hates violence, yet it is perfectly fine for him to go killing off his subordinates.

Kick Them While They Are Down: After destroying Luders' arm (and watching him crawl as he struggles to deal with the pain), he says that it's fine for Luders to give his report while lying on the floor. However, two seconds after saying that, he loses patience and threatens to destroy Luders' legs, "since you're not going to sit down".

Make an Example of Them: He doesn't like fights. He has two people bickering. He's told them in the past not to fight. Punishment? Lop off the arm of the one who started it just to ram his point home. And then kill the other one, anyway.

The Unfettered: Again, the stoicism makes it hard to see at first, but he lops off body parts left and right on a whim, and goes back on his formal declaration of going to war in 5 days as soon as he's feeling opportunistic.

We Have Reserves: When asked why he keeps killing his henchmen - particularly Arrancars, he replies he can always get new ones.

Wham! Line: "We're invading the Soul Society". Ordered on the same day that he declared war on them.

A member of the Vandenreich sporting long blonde hair who notices that Ivan's mission failed and observes that's not actually a bad thing. He seems to be the leader of the "Stern Ritter", the Vandenreich's main combat unit.

The Commander of the "Jagdarmee" division of the Vandenreich, tasked with capturing and subjugating Arrancars. Despite appearing to be a relatively low-ranking officer (there are other Jagdarmee division captains out there), the Emperor trusts him enough to keep The Hero from returning to the Soul Society.

Opie: "Anyone that didn't understand what I just explained will end like this!" (stabs an Arrancar) "Like this. Like this." (stabs two more)Subordinate A: "Is the captain really going to collect any Arrancars?"Opie: (still stabbing in the background) "You're gonna diiieee!!"Subordinate B: "Of course he's not.

He catches a Zanpakuto bare-handed after it decapitated two of his subordinates. Technically, it took him by surprise. He also takes on three lieutenant-level fraccions at the same time and demolishes themoff-screen.

He dodges a point-blank Getsuga Tensho.

Bad Boss: He watched as his entire crew was demolished by three Arrancars. He could've stepped in to help them at any time, but chose to watch as they were slaughtered. To make matters worse, when one of his underlings tried to run away, he butchered the guy. His callousness was enough to silence three Vitriolic Best Buds.

Bait and Switch Boss: Originally, an individual on the last page of chapter 486 was implied to be the commander, yet in 487 the first thing that individual does is take orders from Opie.

Jerkass: If you want to join the Vandenreich, he wants you to kneel down and lick his boots, but when they actually try to join peacefully, he butchers them anyway. When one of the few survivors suggests retreating, he kills him personally. The guy definitely follows the Emperor's example.

Smug Snake: Subverted. The guy definitely has an ego, but he's still incredibly dangerous.

Story-Breaker Power: He can enslave energy. As in, forcibly, irrevocably absorbing it into him.

Take That: Based on what he'd seen of the fraccions so far, he concluded Aizen's choice of subordinates was quite poor.

Wham! Line: "You must have heard about this ability before. An ability called Quincy: Letzt Stil". If Kirge's words and actions are any implication, every member of the Stern Ritter, and the Vandenreich leader himself, all possess the Quincy: Letzt Stil.